160.045. 1. Each public school shall develop standards for teaching no later than June
30, 2010. The standards shall be applicable to all public schools, including public charter
schools operated by the board of a school district.

2. Teaching standards shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) Students actively participate and are successful in the learning process;

(2) Various forms of assessment are used to monitor and manage student learning;

(3) The teacher is prepared and knowledgeable of the content and effectively maintains
students' on-task behavior;

(4) The teacher uses professional communication and interaction with the school
community;

(5) The teacher keeps current on instructional knowledge and seeks and explores changes
in teaching behaviors that will improve student performance; and

(6) The teacher acts as a responsible professional in the overall mission of the school.
3. The department may provide assistance to public schools in developing these
standards upon request.

4. The teaching standards adopted by each district board of education may be
included as part of a district's evaluation system for the purposes of section 168.1032.

163.172. 1. In school year 1994-95 and thereafter until school year 2006-07, the
minimum teacher's salary shall be eighteen thousand dollars. Beginning in school year 2006- 07,
the minimum teacher's salary shall be twenty-two thousand dollars; in school year 2007-08, the
minimum teacher's salary shall be twenty-three thousand dollars; in school year 2008- 09, the
minimum teacher's salary shall be twenty-four thousand dollars; in school year 2009-10 and
thereafter, the minimum teacher's salary shall be twenty-five thousand dollars. [Beginning in the
school year 1996-97 until school year 2006- 07, for any full-time teacher with a master's degree
and at least ten years' teaching experience in a public school or combination of public schools,
the minimum salary shall be twenty-four thousand dollars. Beginning in the school year
2006-07, for any full-time teacher with a master's degree in an academic teaching field and at
least ten years' teaching experience in a public school or combination of public schools, the
minimum salary shall be thirty thousand dollars; in the 2007-08 school year such minimum
salary shall be thirty-one thousand dollars; in the 2008-09 school year such minimum salary shall
be thirty-two thousand dollars; and in the 2009-10 school year such minimum salary shall be
thirty-three thousand dollars.]

2. Beginning with the budget requests for fiscal year 1991, the commissioner of
education shall present to the appropriate committees of the general assembly information on the
average Missouri teacher's salary, regional average salary data, and national average salary data.
3. All school salary information shall be public information.

4. As used in this section, the term "salary" shall be defined as the salary figure which
appears on the teacher's contract and as determined by the local school district's basic salary
schedule and does not include supplements for extra duties.

5. The minimum salary for any fully certificated teacher employed on a less than
full-time basis by a school district, state school for the severely handicapped, the Missouri
School for the Deaf, or the Missouri School for the Blind shall be prorated to reflect the amounts
provided in subsection 1 of this section.

168.078. 1. School principals shall have the right to select teachers for their schools
who have demonstrated their effectiveness and qualifications. School districts that
administer multiple schools shall include in their teacher contracts under section 168.110
provisions for placement based on the mutual consent of the teacher and principal of the
school of teachers who are rated "highly effective" or "effective".

2. Subject to subsection 3 of this section, school districts may adopt options for
teachers rated "highly effective" or "effective" who are displaced and not selected for a
regular position through mutual consent. Options may include but are not limited to
defined grace periods during which such teachers will serve in temporary positions on full
or partial pay and benefits, priority for interviews for vacancies, severance pay, or other
arrangements.

3. If a teacher is unable to obtain a mutual consent assignment at a school within
the school district after twelve months or two hiring cycles, whichever is longer, the school
district shall place the teacher on unpaid leave until such time as the teacher is able to
secure an assignment. If the teacher secures an assignment at a school of the school district
while placed on unpaid leave, the school district shall reinstate the teacher's salary at the
level no less than what it was at the time the unpaid leave began.

4. Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of a school district to place a teacher
in a limited-term teaching or substitute assignment for up to twelve months, during the
period in which the teacher is attempting to secure a mutual consent placement in a school.
A limited-term assignment shall not constitute a mutual consent placement and shall not
be deemed to interrupt the period in which the teacher is required to secure a mutual
consent placement before the school district shall place the teacher on unpaid leave.

168.101. 1. In addition to the employment of teachers as provided in section 168.104,
the school board or board of directors of a school district, [except a metropolitan school district,]
may, at any regular or special meeting, contract and employ legally certificated teachers not
employed as superintendent of the district and not eligible under section 168.104 to gain
permanent status or tenure in the position held within the school system. The contract shall be
made by the order of the board, shall specify the number of months the employee is to work and
the wages per month to be paid, shall be signed by the employee and the president of the board,
or a facsimile signature of the president may be affixed at his direction, and the contract shall be
attested by the secretary of the board by signature or facsimile.

2. After the original employment of a certificated employee not employed as
superintendent of the district under this section, his employment shall continue in the same staff
position from year to year subject to the regulations hereinafter set forth.

3. Each school board having one or more certificated employees as described in
subsection 1 of this section under contract shall notify each such certificated employee in writing
concerning his reemployment in his present staff position or lack thereof on or before the
fifteenth day of April of the year in which the contract then in force expires. Failure on the part
of a board to give the notice constitutes reemployment on the same terms and in the same staff
position as those provided in the contract of the current fiscal year; and not later than the
fifteenth day of May of the same year the board shall present a contract to each such certificated
employee notified of reemployment by the district.

4. Any motion regarding reemployment of such certificated employee shall include only
one person and a motion to reemploy shall be made in the positive sense and a majority of the
elected members voting in the affirmative shall constitute reemployment.

5. Any such certificated employee not employed as superintendent of the district who
receives a contract shall within fifteen days thereafter present to the employing board a written
acceptance or rejection of the employment tendered and his failure to present the acceptance
within such time constitutes a rejection of the board's offer.

6. If such certificated employee has been reemployed five times within the district, the
school board, if requested in writing by such certificated employee within ten days after receipt
of notice of demotion or lack of reemployment on the same terms and in the same staff position,
shall make available in writing a statement of reasons for demotion or lack of reemployment
within ten days after receipt of the request. The board shall grant such certificated employee a
hearing if requested in writing by him within ten days after the receipt of statement of reasons,
the hearing to be held within ten days after the request therefor, and to be open at the request of
the certificated employee. The certificated employee may have counsel at the hearing, may
testify and offer testimony of witnesses as well as other evidence sustaining his defense and may
cross-examine adverse witnesses.

7. A contract between the board of education and such certificated employee may be
terminated at any time by mutual consent of the certificated employee and the board.

8. This section shall not affect the employment or reemployment of the superintendent
of schools by a board of education.

9. Teachers hired in metropolitan districts to begin employment before June 30,
2013, shall become subject to the requirements of sections 168.101 to 168.130 on July 1,
2013.

10. This section shall not apply to teachers hired to begin employment in any
district after June 30, 2013. Teachers who are hired to begin employment after June 30,
2013, shall be subject to sections 168.999 to 168.1032.

168.102. 1. Sections 168.102 to 168.130 shall be known and may be cited as the
"Teacher Tenure Act" and shall become effective July 1, 1970.

2. Sections 168.101 to 168.130 shall not apply to teachers hired to begin employment
after June 30, 2013.

168.104. The following words and phrases when used in sections 168.102 to 168.130,
except in those instances where the context indicates otherwise, mean:

(1) "Board of education", the school board or board of directors of a school district,
[except a metropolitan school district,] having general control of the affairs of the district;

(2) "Demotion", any reduction in salary or transfer to a position carrying a lower salary,
except on request of a teacher, other than any change in salary applicable to all teachers or all
teachers in a classification;

(3) "Indefinite contract", every contract heretofore or hereafter entered into between a
school district and a permanent teacher;

(4) "Permanent teacher", any teacher who has been employed or who is hereafter
employed as a teacher in the same school district for five successive years and who has continued
or who thereafter continues to be employed as a teacher by the school district or any supervisor
of teachers who was employed as a teacher in the same school district for at least five successive
years prior to becoming a supervisor of teachers and who continues thereafter to be employed
as a certificated employee by the school district; except that, when a permanent teacher resigns
or is permanently separated from employment by a school district, and is afterwards reemployed
by the same school district, reemployment for the first school year does not constitute an
indefinite contract but if he is employed for the succeeding year, the employment constitutes an
indefinite contract; and except that any teacher employed under a part-time contract by a school
district shall accrue credit toward permanent status on a prorated basis. Any permanent teacher
who is promoted with his consent to a supervisory position including principal or assistant
principal, or is first employed by a district in a supervisory position including principal or
assistant principal, shall not have permanent status in such position but shall retain tenure in the
position previously held within the district, or, after serving two years as principal or assistant
principal, shall have tenure as a permanent teacher of that system;

(5) "Probationary teacher", any teacher as herein defined who has been employed in the
same school district for five successive years or less. In the case of any probationary teacher who
has been employed in any other school system as a teacher for two or more years, the board of
education shall waive one year of his probationary period;

(6) "School district", every school district in this state, [except metropolitan school
district as defined in section 162.571];

(7) "Teacher", any employee of a school district, [except a metropolitan school district,]
regularly required to be certified under laws relating to the certification of teachers, except
superintendents and assistant superintendents but including certified teachers who teach at the
prekindergarten level in a nonmetropolitan public school within a prekindergarten program in
which no fees are charged to parents or guardians.

168.114. 1. An indefinite contract with a permanent teacher shall not be terminated by
the board of education of a school district except for one or more of the following causes:

(1) [Physical or mental condition unfitting him to instruct or associate with children;

(2) Immoral conduct;

(3) Incompetency, inefficiency or insubordination in line of duty;

(4)]Unsatisfactory performance based on an evaluation that includes performance
on the teaching standards adopted under section 160.045 as well as any performance
measures under section 168.1032;

(2) Willful or persistent violation of, or failure to obey, the school laws of the state or
the published regulations of the board of education of the school district employing him or her,
or insubordination in the line of duty;

[(5)](3) Excessive or unreasonable absence from performance of duties in violation of
school policy; or

[(6)](4) Immoral conduct or conviction of a felony or a crime involving moral
turpitude as specified in section 168.071.

2. In determining the [professional competency of or efficiency of a permanent]performance of a teacher, consideration [should]shall be given to regular and special
evaluation reports prepared in accordance with the policy of the employing school district and
to any written standards of performance which may have been adopted by the school board.

168.118. 1. If a hearing is requested on the termination of an indefinite contract it shall
be conducted by the board of education in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) The hearing shall be public;

(2) Both the teacher and the person filing charges may be represented by counsel who
may cross-examine witnesses;

(3) Testimony at hearings shall be on oath or affirmation administered by the president
of the board of education, who for the purpose of hearings held under sections 168.102 to
168.130 shall have the authority to administer oaths;

(4) The school board shall have the power to subpoena witnesses and documentary
evidence as provided in section 536.077 and shall do so on its own motion or at the request of
the teacher against whom charges have been made. The school board shall hear testimony of all
witnesses named by the teacher; however, the school board may limit the number of witnesses
to be subpoenaed on behalf of the teacher to not more than ten;

(5) The board of education shall employ a stenographer who shall make a full record of
the proceedings of the hearings and who shall, within ten days after the conclusion thereof,
furnish the board of education and the teacher, at no cost to the teacher, with a copy of the
transcript of the record, which shall be certified by the stenographer to be complete and correct.
The transcript shall not be open to public inspection, unless the hearing on the termination of the
contract was an open hearing or if an appeal from the decision of the board is taken by the
teacher;

(6) All costs of the hearing shall be paid by the school board except the cost of counsel
for the teacher;

(7) The decision of the board of education resulting in the demotion of a permanent
teacher or the termination of an indefinite contract shall be by a majority vote of the members
of the board of education and the decision shall be made within seven days after the transcript
is furnished them. A written copy of the decision shall be furnished the teacher within three days
thereafter.

2. During any time in which powers granted to a district's board of education are
vested in a special administrative board, the special administrative board may appoint a
hearing officer to conduct the hearing. The hearing officer shall conduct the hearing as
a contested case under chapter 536 and shall issue a written recommendation to the board
rendering the charges against the teacher. The board shall render a decision on the
charges upon the review of the hearing officer's recommendations and the record from the
hearing. The action and decision of the board upon the charges shall be final.

168.124. 1. The board of education of a school district may place on leave of absence
as many teachers as may be necessary because of a decrease in pupil enrollment, school district
reorganization or the financial condition of the school district. [In placing teachers on leave, the
board of education shall be governed by the following provisions:

(1) No permanent teacher shall be placed on leave of absence while probationary
teachers are retained in positions for which a permanent teacher is qualified;

(2) Permanent teachers shall be retained on the basis of performance-based evaluations
and seniority (however, seniority shall not be controlling) within the field of specialization;

(3) Permanent teachers shall be reinstated to the positions from which they have been
given leaves of absence, or if not available, to positions requiring like training and experience,
or to other positions in the school system for which they are qualified by training and experience;

(4) No appointment of new teachers shall be made while there are available teachers on
unrequested leave of absence who are properly qualified to fill such vacancies;

(5)]Seniority or years of service shall not be used as criteria for reduction in force;
effective teacher performance shall be the deciding criterion.

2. A teacher placed on leave of absence may engage in teaching or another occupation
during the period of such leave[;].

[(6)]3. The leave of absence shall not impair the tenure of a teacher[;].

[(7)]4. The leave of absence shall continue for a period of not more than three years
unless extended by the board.

[2.]5. Should a board of education choose to utilize the mechanism for reducing teacher
forces as provided in subsection 1 of this section in an attempt to manage adverse financial
conditions caused at least partially by a withholding of, or a decrease or less than expected
increase in, education appropriations, then the district additionally shall follow the provisions
of subsection [3]6 of this section.

[3.]6. If a school district has an unrestricted combined ending fund balance of more than
ten percent of current expenditures in its teachers' and incidental funds, and in the subsequent
fiscal year such district, because of state appropriations, places a contracted teacher on leave of
absence after forty days subsequent to the governor signing the elementary and secondary
education appropriation bill, the district shall pay the affected teacher the greater of his or her
salary for any days worked under the contract, or a sum equal to three thousand dollars.

168.201. The board of education in all districts [except metropolitan districts] may
employ and contract with a superintendent for a term not to exceed three years from the time of
making the contract, and may employ such other servants and agents as it deems necessary, and
prescribe their powers, duties, compensation and term of office or employment which shall not
exceed three years. It shall provide and keep a corporate seal.

168.211. 1. In metropolitan districts the superintendent of schools shall be appointed
by the board of education for a term of [one to five]up to three years, during which term his
compensation shall not be reduced. The superintendent of schools may appoint, with the
approval of the board, a treasurer, a commissioner of school buildings and he shall serve at the
pleasure of the superintendent of schools and as many associate and assistant superintendents as
he deems necessary, whose compensation shall be fixed by the board. The superintendent of
schools shall give bond in the sum that the board requires but not less than fifty thousand dollars.
No employee or agent of the board shall be a member of the board.

2. The superintendent of schools shall have general supervision, subject to policies
established by the board, of the school system, including its various departments and physical
properties, courses of instruction, discipline and conduct of the schools, textbooks and studies.
All appointments, promotions and transfers of teachers and all other employees, and introduction
and changes of textbooks and apparatus, shall be made by the superintendent with the approval
of the board. All appointments and promotions of teachers and all other employees shall be
made upon the basis of merit, to be ascertained, as far as practicable, in cases of appointment,
by examination, and in cases of promotion, by length and character of service. Examinations for
appointment shall be conducted by the superintendent under regulations to be made by the board.
He shall make such reports to the board that it directs or the rules provide.

3. The superintendent of schools shall have general supervision, subject to policies
established by the board, of all school buildings, apparatus, equipment and school grounds and
of their construction, installation, operation, repair, care and maintenance; the purchasing of all
supplies and equipment; the operation of the school lunchrooms; the administration of
examinations for the appointment and promotion of all employees of the school system; and the
preparation and administration of the annual budget for the school system. Subject to the
approval of the board of education as to number and salaries, the superintendent may appoint as
many employees as are necessary for the proper performance of his duties.

4. The board may grant a leave of absence to the superintendent of schools, and may
remove him from office by vote of a majority of its members.

5. Should the superintendent hire a commissioner of school buildings, said person shall
be a person qualified by reason of education, experience and general familiarity with buildings
and personnel to assume the following responsibilities and duties. Subject to the control of the
superintendent of schools, he shall exercise supervision over all school buildings, machinery,
heating systems, equipment, school grounds and other buildings and premises of the board of
education and the construction, installation, operation, repair, care and maintenance related
thereto and the personnel connected therewith; the purchasing of building supplies and
equipment and such other duties as may be assigned to him by board rules or regulations.

168.221. 1. The first five years of employment of all teachers entering the employment
of the metropolitan school district shall be deemed a period of probation during which period all
appointments of teachers shall expire at the end of each school year. During the probationary
period any probationary teacher whose work is unsatisfactory shall be furnished by the
superintendent of schools with a written statement setting forth the nature of his incompetency.
If improvement satisfactory to the superintendent is not made within one semester after the
receipt of the statement, the probationary teacher shall be dismissed. The semester granted the
probationary teacher in which to improve shall not in any case be a means of prolonging the
probationary period beyond five years and six months from the date on which the teacher entered
the employ of the board of education. The superintendent of schools on or before the fifteenth
day of April in each year shall notify probationary teachers who will not be retained by the
school district of the termination of their services. Any probationary teacher who is not so
notified shall be deemed to have been appointed for the next school year. Any principal who
prior to becoming a principal had attained permanent employee status as a teacher shall upon
ceasing to be a principal have a right to resume his or her permanent teacher position with the
time served as a principal being treated as if such time had been served as a teacher for the
purpose of calculating seniority and pay scale. The rights and duties and remuneration of a
teacher who was formerly a principal shall be the same as any other teacher with the same level
of qualifications and time of service.

2. After completion of satisfactory probationary services, appointments of teachers shall
become permanent, subject to removal for any one or more causes herein described and to the
right of the board to terminate the services of all who attain the age of compulsory retirement
fixed by the retirement system. In determining the duration of the probationary period of
employment in this section specified, the time of service rendered as a substitute teacher shall
not be included.

3. No teacher whose appointment has become permanent may be removed except for one
or more of the following causes: immorality, inefficiency in line of duty, violation of the
published regulations of the school district, violation of the laws of Missouri governing the
public schools of the state, or physical or mental condition which incapacitates him for
instructing or associating with children, and then only by a vote of not less than a majority of all
the members of the board, upon written charges presented by the superintendent of schools, to
be heard by the board after thirty days' notice, with copy of the charges served upon the person
against whom they are preferred, who shall have the privilege of being present at the hearing,
together with counsel, offering evidence and making defense thereto. Notifications received by
an employee during a vacation period shall be considered as received on the first day of the
school term following. At the request of any person so charged the hearing shall be public.
During any time in which powers granted to the district's board of education are vested in a
special administrative board, the special administrative board may appoint a hearing officer to
conduct the hearing. The hearing officer shall conduct the hearing as a contested case under
chapter 536 and shall issue a written recommendation to the board rendering the charges against
the teacher. The board shall render a decision on the charges upon the review of the hearing
officer's recommendations and the record from the hearing. The action and decision of the board
upon the charges shall be final. Pending the hearing of the charges, the person charged may be
suspended if the rules of the board so prescribe, but in the event the board does not by a majority
vote of all the members remove the teacher upon charges presented by the superintendent, the
person shall not suffer any loss of salary by reason of the suspension. Inefficiency in line of duty
is cause for dismissal only after the teacher has been notified in writing at least one semester
prior to the presentment of charges against him by the superintendent. The notification shall
specify the nature of the inefficiency with such particularity as to enable the teacher to be
informed of the nature of his inefficiency.

4. No teacher whose appointment has become permanent shall be demoted nor shall his
or her salary be reduced unless the same procedure is followed as herein stated for the removal
of the teacher because of inefficiency in line of duty, and any teacher whose salary is reduced or
who is demoted may waive the presentment of charges against him or her by the superintendent
and a hearing thereon by the board. The foregoing provision shall apply only to permanent
teachers prior to the compulsory retirement age under the retirement system. Nothing herein
contained shall in any way restrict or limit the power of the board of education to make
reductions in the number of teachers or principals, or both, because of insufficient funds,
decrease in pupil enrollment, or abolition of particular subjects or courses of instruction, except
that the abolition of particular subjects or courses of instruction shall not cause those teachers
who have been teaching the subjects or giving the courses of instruction to be placed on leave
of absence as herein provided who are qualified to teach other subjects or courses of instruction,
if positions are available for the teachers in the other subjects or courses of instruction.

5. Whenever it is necessary to decrease the number of teachers because of insufficient
funds or a substantial decrease of pupil population within the school district, the board of
education upon recommendation of the superintendent of schools may cause the necessary
number of teachers beginning with those serving probationary periods to be placed on leave of
absence without pay, but only in the inverse order of their appointment. Nothing herein stated
shall prevent a readjustment by the board of education of existing salary schedules. No teacher
placed on a leave of absence shall be precluded from securing other employment during the
period of the leave of absence. Each teacher placed on leave of absence shall be reinstated in
inverse order of his placement on leave of absence. Such reemployment shall not result in a loss
of status or credit for previous years of service. No new appointments shall be made while there
are available teachers on leave of absence who are seventy years of age or less and who are
adequately qualified to fill the vacancy unless the teachers fail to advise the superintendent of
schools within thirty days from the date of notification by the superintendent of schools that
positions are available to them that they will return to employment and will assume the duties
of the position to which appointed not later than the beginning of the school year next following
the date of the notice by the superintendent of schools.

6. If any regulation which deals with the promotion of teachers is amended by increasing
the qualifications necessary to be met before a teacher is eligible for promotion, the amendment
shall fix an effective date which shall allow a reasonable length of time within which teachers
may become qualified for promotion under the regulations.

7. A teacher whose appointment has become permanent may give up the right to a
permanent appointment to participate in the teacher choice compensation package under sections
168.745 to 168.750.

8. Teachers hired to begin employment before June 30, 2013, shall become subject
to the requirements of sections 168.101 to 168.130 on July 1, 2013.

9. Section 168.221 shall not apply to teachers hired to begin employment after June
30, 2013. Teachers who are hired to begin employment after June 30, 2013, shall be subject
to sections 168.999 to 168.1032.

168.251. 1. All employees of a metropolitan school district shall be appointed and
promoted under rules and regulations prescribed by the board of education of the school district.
The rules shall be complementary to the provisions of sections 168.251 to 168.291 as to the
removal, discharge, suspension without pay or demotion of permanent employees and not in
derogation thereof. The word "employee" or "employees" as used in this section means all
employees, male or female, except certificated employees.

2. All appointments and promotions of noncertificated employees shall be made in the
case of appointment by examination, and in case of promotion by [length and] character of
service. Examinations for appointments shall be conducted by the director of personnel under
regulations to be made by the board.

3. Sections 168.251 to 168.291 shall not apply to employees hired after August 28, 2009.

168.291. Whenever it is necessary to decrease the number of employees because of
insufficient funds or decrease in pupil enrollment or lack of work the board of education may
cause the necessary number of employees, beginning with those serving probationary periods,
to be placed on leave of absence without pay[, but only in the inverse order of their appointment.
Each employee placed on leave of absence shall be reinstated in inverse order of his placement
on leave of absence]. Employee performance as defined by the policy of the district shall
be the deciding criterion for reduction in force and reinstatement. Such reemployment shall
not result in a loss of status or credit for previous periods of service. No new appointments shall
be made while there are available employees on leave of absence who have not attained the age
of seventy years and who are adequately qualified to fill the vacancy in the particular department
unless the employees fail to advise the board within thirty days from date of notification by the
board that positions are available to them, that they will return to employment, and will assume
the duties of the position to which they are appointed not later than the beginning of the month
following the date of the notice by the board.

168.410. 1. School administrators and school district superintendents shall be evaluated
in the following manner:

(1) The board of education of each school district shall cause a comprehensive
performance-based evaluation for each administrator employed by the district. Such evaluation
shall be ongoing and of sufficient specificity and frequency to provide for demonstrated
standards of competency and academic ability;

(2) All evaluations shall be maintained in the respective administrator's personnel file
at the office of the board of education of the school district. A copy of each evaluation shall be
provided to the person being evaluated and to the appropriate administrator[;].

2. The Missouri administration standards professional continuum for leaders may
be included as part of a district's evaluation system for purposes of section 168.1032.

[(3)]3. The state department of elementary and secondary education shall provide
suggested procedures for the evaluations performed under this section.

4. School administrators may enter into a contract for employment with the school
district for a period of up to four years.

168.999. 1. Beginning on July 1, 2013, in addition to the employment of teachers
as provided in sections 168.1000 to 168.1030, the school board of a school district may, at
any regular or special meeting, contract and employ legally certificated teachers not
employed as superintendent of the district. The contract shall be made by the order of the
board, shall specify the number of months the employee is to work, not to exceed twelve
months, and the wages per month to be paid, shall be signed by the employee and the
president of the board, or a facsimile or electronic signature of the president may be
affixed at his or her direction, and the contract shall be attested by the secretary of the
board by signature, facsimile, or electronic signature.

2. Each school board having one or more certificated employees as described in
subsection 1 of this section under annual contract shall notify each such certificated
employee in writing concerning his or her reemployment or nonrenewal in his or her
present employment position on or before the fifteenth day of April of the school year in
which the annual contract then in force expires. No later than the fifteenth day of May of
the same year the board shall present an annual contract to each such certificated
employee notified of reemployment by the district.

3. Any motion regarding reemployment of such certificated employee shall include
only one person and a motion to reemploy shall be made in the positive sense, and a
majority of the total membership of the board voting in the affirmative shall constitute
reemployment.

4. Any such certificated employee not employed as superintendent of the district
who receives an annual contract shall within fifteen days thereafter present to the
employing board a written acceptance or rejection of the employment tendered. Failure
to present the acceptance within such time constitutes a rejection of the board's offer.

5. A teacher employed under this section shall be subject to the requirement of
notice of nonrenewal under section 168.1011.

6. An annual contract between the school board and such certificated employee
may be terminated at any time by mutual consent of the certificated employee and the
board.

7. This section shall not affect the employment or reemployment of the
superintendent of schools by a school board.

168.1000. Sections 168.1000 to 168.1030 shall be known and may be cited as the
"Teacher Multiyear Contract Act" and shall become effective July 1, 2013.

168.1002. The following words and phrases when used in sections 168.1000 to
168.1030, except in those instances where the context indicates otherwise, mean:

(1) "Board of education", the school board or board of directors of a school district
having general control of the affairs of the district, including a special administrative
board that has general control of the affairs of the district;

(2) "Demotion", any reduction in salary or transfer to a position carrying a lower
salary, except on request of a teacher, other than any change in salary applicable to all
teachers or all teachers in a classification;

(3) "Evaluation", a systematic assessment of teacher performance, undertaken by
personnel who have received appropriate training in teacher performance assessment, that
includes both formative and summative elements. Formative assessment primarily
provides feedback for the improvement of teacher performance. Summative assessment
provides a basis for employment decisions and may contain information from formative
assessments as provided in the school district's policy on teacher evaluation;

(4) "Multiyear contract", every contract entered into between a school district and
a teacher for a period of two to four consecutive years;

(5) "Multiyear contract teacher", any teacher as herein defined in this section who
is employed on a multiyear contract;

(6) "School district", every school district in this state;

(7) "Teacher", any employee of a school district regularly required to be certified
under laws relating to the certification of teachers, except building administrators,
superintendents, and assistant superintendents, but including certified teachers who teach
at the prekindergarten level in a seven-director or urban public school within a
prekindergarten program in which no fees are charged to parents or guardians.

168.1003. 1. Each school district shall initially place any teacher who is contracted
to begin initial employment in the district on or after July 1, 2013, on a one-year contract
as provided in section 168.999.

2. School districts shall develop policies that guide decisions concerning the
recommended length of multiyear contracts for school years subsequent to 2013-14, except
as further provided in subsection 3 of this section.

3. A teacher who has received two successive annual evaluations of "ineffective"
shall not be reemployed.

168.1004. A multiyear contract shall continue in effect for the period decided upon
by the school board, subject to:

(1) Compulsory or optional retirement;

(2) The death of the teacher;

(3) Resignation of the teacher with the written consent of the school board;

(4) Termination by the board of education;

(5) The revocation or lapse of the teacher's certificate; or

(6) Modifications under subsection 1 of section 168.1008 with the consent of the
teacher.

168.1006. 1. Every multiyear contract shall contain the following provisions in
substantially the following form:

"It is hereby agreed by and between ......., the teacher, and the Board of Education
of ........ School District, the employer, that the teacher, beginning on the .... day of ...........,
20..., shall serve in the employ of the Board of Education and its successors for a term of
........ months for an annual compensation of $ ....., to be paid to the teacher in equal
installments according to local school board regulations less the contributions required by
law.".

2. Every multiyear contract shall be:

(1) Made by the order of the board of education;

(2) In writing;

(3) Signed by the teacher and the president of the board of education, or a facsimile
signature of the president may be affixed at his or her direction; and

(4) Attested by the secretary of the board of education by signature or facsimile.

3. Nothing in the terms of a multiyear contract shall restrict the power of the board
of education to terminate the multiyear contract for cause at any time.

4. The terms of a multiyear contract, including salary, may be made contingent
upon available funding.

5. A multiyear contract may not be renewed more than fourteen months before its
expiration.

168.1007. The board of education shall not employ one of its members as a teacher,
nor shall any person be employed as a teacher who is related within the fourth degree to
any board member, either by consanguinity or affinity, where the vote of the board
member is necessary to the selection of the person.

168.1008. 1. The board of education of a school district may modify a multiyear
contract on or before the fifteenth day of May in the following particulars:

(1) Determination of the date of beginning and length of the next school year;

(2) Fixing the amount of annual compensation for the following school year; and

(3) Designating how assessment results based on student performance may affect
contract length and terms.

2. The modifications shall be effective at the beginning of the next school year. All
teachers affected by the modification shall be furnished written copies of the modifications
within thirty days after their adoption by the board of education.

168.1009. Each school district shall develop a compensation plan for certificated
personnel and update it annually.

168.1010. A multiyear contract between a multiyear contract teacher and a board
of education may be terminated or modified at any time by the mutual consent of the
parties thereto. Any teacher who desires to terminate his or her multiyear contract at the
end of a school term shall give written notice of his or her intention to do so and the
reasons therefore not later than June first of the year in which the term ends.

168.1011. 1. When an administrator recommends that the multiyear contract of
a teacher not be renewed, the administrator shall provide written notice to the teacher no
later than January thirty-first.

2. The administrator shall present the name of each teacher whose multiyear
contract is not recommended for renewal to the board of education of the school district
by March thirty-first of each year. The board shall conduct a vote to accept or reject the
administrator's recommendation separately on each name by April fifteenth.

168.1012. 1. A multiyear contract may be terminated by the board of education of
a school district for one or more of the following causes:

(1) Unsatisfactory performance based on the teacher evaluation under section
168.1032;

(2) Willful or persistent violation of, or failure to obey, the school laws of the state
or the published regulations of the board of education of the school district employing him
or her, or insubordination in the line of duty;

(3) Excessive or unreasonable absence from performance of duties in violation of
school district policy; or

(4) Immoral conduct or conviction of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude
as specified in section 168.071.

2. In determining the professional competency or efficiency of a multiyear contract
teacher, consideration shall be given to regular and special evaluation reports prepared in
accordance with the policy of the employing school district and to any written standards
of performance which have been adopted by the school board under sections 160.045 and
168.1032.

168.1016. 1. The multiyear contract of a teacher may not be terminated by the
board of education until after service upon the teacher of written charges specifying with
particularity the grounds alleged to exist for termination of such contract, notice of a
hearing on the charges, and a hearing by the board of education on the charges if
requested by the teacher.

2. Prior to the service of charges, the teacher shall be given warning by the board
of education or the superintendent of schools, stating specifically the causes which, if not
removed, may result in charges. Service of written charges under subsection 1 of this
section cannot be made in less than twenty days after the teacher has been given the
written warning. Thereafter, both the superintendent, or his or her designated
representative, and the teacher shall meet and confer in an effort to resolve the matter.

3. Notice of a hearing upon the charges, together with a copy of the charges, shall
be served on the teacher at least fifteen days prior to the date of the hearing. The notice
and copy of the charges may be served upon the teacher by certified mail with personal
delivery addressed to the teacher's last known address. If the teacher or his or her agent
does not within ten days after receipt of the notice request a hearing on the charges, the
board of education may, by a majority vote, order the contract of the teacher terminated.
If a hearing is requested by either the teacher or the board of education, it shall take place
no more than twenty days after notice of a hearing has been provided to the teacher.

4. On the filing of charges in accordance with this section, the board of education
may suspend the teacher from active performance of duty until a decision is rendered by
the board of education, but the teacher's salary shall be continued during such suspension.

5. If a hearing is requested on the termination of a multiyear contract, it shall be
conducted by the board of education in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) The hearing shall be public;

(2) Both the teacher and the person filing charges may be represented by counsel
who may cross-examine witnesses;

(3) Testimony at hearings shall be on oath or affirmation administered by the
president of the board of education, who for the purpose of hearings held under this
section shall have the authority to administer oaths;

(4) The board of education shall have the power to subpoena witnesses and
documentary evidence as provided in section 536.077 and shall do so on its own motion or
at the request of the teacher against whom charges have been made. The board of
education shall hear testimony of all witnesses named by the teacher; however, the board
of education may limit the number of witnesses to be subpoenaed on behalf of the teacher
to not more than ten;

(5) The board of education shall employ a stenographer who shall make a full
record of the proceedings of the hearings and who shall, within ten days after the
conclusion thereof, provide the board of education and the teacher, at no cost to the
teacher, with a copy of the transcript of the record, which shall be certified by the
stenographer to be complete and correct;

(6) All costs of the hearing shall be paid by the board of education except the cost
of counsel for the teacher if the teacher is represented by counsel;

(7) The decision of the board of education resulting in the demotion of a teacher or
the termination of a multiyear contract shall be by a majority vote of the members of the
board of education, and the decision shall be made within seven days after the transcript
is provided to them. A written copy of the decision shall be provided to the teacher within
three days of the board's decision.

6. During any time in which powers granted to a district's board of education are
vested in a special administrative board, the special administrative board may appoint a
hearing officer to conduct the hearing. The hearing officer shall conduct the hearing as
a contested case under chapter 536 and shall issue a written recommendation to the board
rendering the charges against the teacher. The board shall render a decision on the
charges upon the review of the hearing officer's recommendations and the record from the
hearing. The action and decision of the board upon the charges shall be final.

168.1020. The board of education of a school district may establish policies for
granting a leave of absence including but not limited to sabbatical leave, maternity leave,
sick leave, and military leave. A board of education may, upon the written request of a
teacher, and for good cause shown, grant a leave of absence or place him or her on a
part-time teaching schedule for a period of one year, subject to renewal from year to year.
Leaves and military service shall not impair the multiyear contract previously acquired by
a teacher under sections 168.1000 to 168.1030.

168.1022. 1. The board of education of a school district may place on leave of
absence as many teachers as may be necessary because of a decrease in pupil enrollment,
school district reorganization, or the financial condition of the school district. Seniority
or years of service shall not be used as criteria for reduction in force; effective teacher
performance shall be the deciding criterion.

2. A teacher placed on leave of absence may engage in teaching or another
occupation during the period of such leave.

3. The leave of absence shall not impair the multiyear contract of a teacher.

4. If a board of education chooses to reduce its teacher forces as provided in
subsection 1 of this section in an attempt to manage adverse financial conditions caused at
least partially by a withholding of, or a decrease or less than expected increase in,
education appropriations, then the district additionally shall follow the provisions of
subsection 5 of this section.

5. If a school district has an unrestricted combined ending fund balance of more
than ten percent of current expenditures in its teachers' and incidental funds, and in the
subsequent fiscal year such district, because of state appropriations, places a teacher on
leave of absence after forty days subsequent to the governor signing the elementary and
secondary education appropriation bill, the district shall pay the affected teacher the
greater of his or her salary for any days worked under the contract, or a sum equal to three
thousand dollars.

168.1025. 1. School principals shall have the right to select teachers for their
schools who have demonstrated their effectiveness and qualifications. School districts that
administer multiple schools shall include in their teacher contracts under section 168.1008
provisions for placement based on the mutual consent of the teacher and principal of the
school of teachers who are rated "highly effective" or "effective".

2. Subject to subsection 3 of this section, school districts may adopt options for
teachers rated "highly effective" or "effective" who are displaced and not selected for a
regular position through mutual consent. Options may include but are not limited to
defined grace periods during which such teachers will serve in temporary positions on full
or partial pay and benefits, priority for interviews for vacancies, severance pay, or other
arrangements.

3. If a teacher is unable to obtain a mutual consent assignment at a school within
the school district after twelve months or two hiring cycles, whichever is longer, the school
district shall place the teacher on unpaid leave until such time as the teacher is able to
secure an assignment. If the teacher secures an assignment at a school of the school district
while placed on unpaid leave, the school district shall reinstate the teacher's salary at the
level no less than what it was at the time the unpaid leave began.

4. Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of a school district to place a teacher
in a limited-term teaching or substitute assignment for up to twelve months, during the
period in which the teacher is attempting to secure a mutual consent placement in a school.
A limited-term assignment shall not constitute a mutual consent placement and shall not
be deemed to interrupt the period in which the teacher is required to secure a mutual
consent placement before the school district shall place the teacher on unpaid leave.

168.1026. 1. The board of education of each school district shall maintain records
showing periods of service, dates of appointment, and other necessary information for the
enforcement of sections 168.1000 to 168.1032.

2. All evaluations shall be maintained in the teacher's personnel file at the office of
the board of education. A copy of each evaluation shall be provided to the teacher and
appropriate administrator.

168.1028. No member of a board of education or duly designated administrative
officer of a board of education shall be liable in a civil action based on an evaluation of or
a statement of charges against a teacher.

168.1030. No teacher shall take part in the management of a campaign for the
election or defeat of members of a board of education by which he or she is employed. Any
teacher who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to termination of his or
her employment by the district with the right of a hearing as provided in sections 168.1000
to 168.1030.

168.1032. 1. Notwithstanding sections 160.045 and 168.412, evaluation of teachers
and principals shall include, at a minimum, the following:

(1) Each district board of education shall develop and implement an evaluation
system for elementary and secondary school teachers and principals that uses multiple
measures aligned with growth in student achievement, and shall use the evaluation system
as the basis for personnel and compensation decisions about teachers and principals,
consistent with this section and the district's compensation plans under section 168.1009
and with regulations issued by the department of elementary and secondary education;

(2) If a district board of education fails to adopt an evaluation system consistent
with the requirements and timelines of this section, or at the election of the district board
of education, the district board of education shall use the model evaluation system
developed by the department under this section.

2. The district's evaluation system shall be developed and implemented in
consultation with teachers and principals and with parents of students and include
continuing input from teachers, principals, and parents; provided, that policies and
procedures for the system and actions to implement the system shall not be subject to
collective bargaining with the collective bargaining agents of teachers.

3. Teachers and principals shall be evaluated using multiple, fair, rigorous,
transparent, and valid measures, consistent with definitions of these terms by the
department. Evaluation measures shall include the following:

(1) For teachers who teach courses that are subject to state assessments aligned
with state standards and for the principals of elementary or secondary schools that use
these assessments, student achievement growth on such assessments shall count for at least
fifty percent of the evaluation;

(2) For teachers who do not directly instruct students in subjects and grades subject
to assessments aligned with state standards, but who are expected to contribute to student
performance on such assessments, growth in student achievement on such assessments
shall be used as an evaluation measure and shall count for at least fifty percent of the
evaluation;

(3) Student achievement growth shall be measured through such assessments in
accordance with a state-level growth model and with value-added methods developed by
the department;

(4) Multiple additional measures for teachers may be correlated with impacts on
student achievement results. These measures shall include student surveys and multiple
classroom observations each year by trained teachers, principals, administrators, or other
professionals, using clear, consistent observation rubrics provided to the teacher in
advance and may include other measures aligned with student achievement as designated
by the school district;

(5) Districts shall develop evaluation standards for teachers who are in their first
year of employment in their career and thus lack student performance results. A district's
teaching standards under section 160.045 and measures specifically directed towards new
teachers may be used in lieu of student performance under this subsection during the first
year of employment;

(6) The department of elementary and secondary education shall develop suggested
procedures and models for student performance evaluations including suggestions for
evaluation of student performance that may be equitably applied to certificated teachers
who are not assigned to a classroom, or whose assignment lacks evaluation instruments
specific to their assignments;

(7) Multiple additional measures for principals shall be correlated with impacts on
student achievement results for students in all subgroups and shall include the principal's
ability to attract and retain highly effective teachers; management of the school, including
its finances, space, and legal compliance; and parental engagement in the school; and shall
include at least fifty percent from measures aligned with student achievement.

4. Notice of evaluation measures and effectiveness ratings shall be based on the
following:

(1) Teachers and principals shall be given written notice in advance of the measures
and any specific indicators that will be used to evaluate them including any teaching
standards adopted under section 160.045 or administrator standards adopted under
section 168.412;

(2) Each teacher and principal shall be given one of four rating levels that are
designated as "Highly Effective", "Effective", "Needs Improvement", or "Ineffective", as
further defined by the department of elementary and secondary education or district board
of education; provided, that the rating of "Effective" shall be based in significant part on
the percentage of students who achieved at least one year's worth of growth for a school
year of instruction, or otherwise achieved appropriate growth based on expectations
derived from at least two years of individual student achievement data, except for a teacher
who is in his or her first year of employment.

5. District boards of education shall base decisions regarding significant
differentiation in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions,
including contract length, transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions
in force as provided in section 168.1022, primarily on evaluation results for teachers and
principals.

6. Each teacher and principal contract and collective bargaining agreement entered
into after July 1, 2013, shall authorize use of evaluation results as the basis for the decisions
described in subsection 5 of this section;

7. Each district board of education, with such assistance as may be available from
the department, shall develop the evaluation system for administration as a pilot during
the 2012-13 school year and shall review the results of the pilot to determine the
professional development needs of teachers and principals and to make adjustments to the
system for full implementation during school year 2013-14.

8. The department of elementary and secondary education shall:

(1) Develop standards for implementation of local evaluation systems under this
section, including, but not limited to:

(a) Processes to determine the teacher of record for purposes of assigning student
achievement scores to a teacher in evaluating the teacher's performance;

(b) Processes to verify the minimum amount of instructional time given by the
teacher to a student in order to assign the student's achievement scores to the teacher for
the purposes of evaluating the teacher's performance;

(c) Standards for rating levels to be assigned to teachers and principals, consistent
with this section;

(d) Processes and requirements for value-added methods to be used in measuring
student achievement growth for purposes of teacher and principal evaluation; and

(e) Minimum training requirements for evaluators of teachers and principals;

(2) Develop, implement, and publicly disseminate a statewide student growth model
and a value-added system for determining student growth on assessments for purposes of
teacher and principal evaluation in order to standardize student academic growth
measures and ensure teachers are measured according to the value they add to student
growth;

(3) Provide technical assistance to district boards of education in developing and
implementing a local evaluation system under this section, including providing or helping
to develop training for evaluators and a resource bank that identifies assessments,
processes, tools, and policies that a district board of education may use to develop its
evaluation system. The resource bank shall include resources that are appropriate to
districts of different sizes, demographics, and locations and shall be updated periodically
to reflect new research and experience in implementing sections 168.1000 to 168.1032;

(4) Develop a default evaluation system, consistent with this section, that shall be
used by districts that are not able to develop their own system or that elect to use the state
model evaluation system developed by the department of elementary and secondary
education. A district that uses the state model evaluation system may revise or adapt
policies or processes in the system to the extent consistent with this section and regulations
of the department;

(5) Provide or approve evaluation forms to be used in evaluating teachers and
principals;

(6) Include in its longitudinal data system links between data for teacher
preparation programs in the state and achievement data for individual students; and

(7) Monitor local evaluation systems established under this section to ensure that
evaluation outcomes are consistent in the aggregate with student achievement results at the
district and school levels and that the evaluation systems meet the requirements of this
section and direct any appropriate corrective actions.

536.018. The term "agency" and the term "state agency" as defined by section 536.010
shall not include an institution of higher education, supported in whole or in part from state
funds, or a public school district established under chapter 162, if such institution or district
has established written procedures to assure that constitutionally required due process safeguards
exist and apply to a proceeding that would otherwise constitute a "contested case" as defined in
section 536.010.

[168.120. 1. The teacher shall have the right to appeal from the decision
of the board of education to the circuit court of the county where the employing
school district is located. The appeal shall be taken within fifteen days after
service of a copy of the decision of the board of education upon the teacher, and
if an appeal is not taken within the time, then the decision of the board of
education shall become final.

2. The appeal may be taken by filing notice of appeal with the board of
education, whereupon the board of education, under its certificate, shall forward
to the court all documents and papers on file in the matter, together with a
transcript of the evidence, the findings and the decision of the board of education,
which shall thereupon become the record of the cause. Such appeal shall be
heard as provided in chapter 536.

3. Appeals from the circuit court shall be allowed in the same manner as
in civil actions, except that the original transcript prepared and filed in the circuit
court by the board of education, together with a transcript of the proceedings had
in the circuit court, shall constitute the transcript on appeal in the appellate court.
The board of education shall make available, to the parties, copies of any
transcript prepared and filed by it in the circuit court and upon final determination
of the cause in the appellate court the original record of the board of education
filed as a part of the transcript on appeal shall be certified back to the board of
education by the appellate court. In all appeals from the board of education or
circuit court the costs thereof shall be assessed against the losing party as
provided by law in civil cases. All appeals to the circuit court and appellate
courts shall have precedence over all cases except election contests.

4. If the circuit court finds for the teacher, he shall be restored to
permanent teacher status and shall receive compensation for the period during
which he may have been suspended from work, and such other relief as may be
granted by the court.]

Section B. The repeal of section 168.120 and the repeal and reenactment of sections
168.101, 168.102, 168.104, 168.114, 168.118, 168.124, 168.201, 168.211, 168.221, 168.251,
168.291, and 536.018, and the enactment of section 168.078, of this act shall become effective
on July 1, 2013.